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The theme of this meeting, which links academia, industry and government, was historical analysis (HA), the sub-discipline of operational research which conducts quantitative studies of historical warfare and other operations to learn lessons for contemporary defence and security. In addition to attendees from industry and government already familiar with the area, the meeting aimed to attract academic operational researchers, mathematicians and statisticians with a strong interest in history, and historians sympathetic to quantitative approaches. Talks and discussions were accessible to all, with the aim of the meeting being to seed innovative technique and analysis both directly in HA and across the traditional academic divide between history and the mathematical sciences.